From d26e7184533dcc20c760dbb920b581de04859249 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:24:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use preg_quote() to make spam words regex safe.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@1896 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/functions.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/functions.php b/wp-includes/functions.php
index 2802b87a4c..db2ab195fe 100644
--- a/wp-includes/functions.php
+++ b/wp-includes/functions.php
@@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ function check_comment($author, $email, $url, $comment, $user_ip, $user_agent) {
 
 		// Do some escaping magic so that '#' chars in the 
 		// spam words don't break things:
-		$word = preg_replace('/(\\\\|#)/','\\\\$1',$word);
+		$word = preg_quote($word, '#');
 		
 		$pattern = "#$word#i"; 
 		if ( preg_match($pattern, $author) ) return false;